Many lifters believe every set must end in failure. Two meta-analyses of training studies say that is not necessary. No clear hypertrophy advantage A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis in Sports Medicine found only a trivial hypertrophy advantage for training to set failure (effect size about 0.19) when all failure definitions were pooled, and no advantage in sub-group analyses. The…
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